Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve is a national park located in southeast Alaska, United States. The center of the park is near the site of Gustavus and about 90 miles northwest of Juneau. Glacier Park ranges from 17 glaciers to snow-capped mountains, coastlines with sheltered bays, beaches, and deep fjords, such as Tarr Inlet, […]
One of the oldest national parks in the USA with its prairies and the famous Wind Cave is located in the Black Hills in the state of South Dakota. Wind Cave National Park connects South Dakota directly to Custer State Park. Beneath the prairie of the southern Black Hills is Wind Cave, a National Park […]
The Walt Disney World Resort is located near Orlando, Florida. The amusement park Walt Disney World consists of four theme parks, two water parks and 23 hotels. It is one of America’s most visited attractions. The amusement park is located approximately 34 km southwest of the city of Orlando in Orange County. Since Disneyland in […]
Untouched nature, lakes and mountainous terrain, south of Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming lies Grand Teton National Park with its magnificent landscape. Impressive granite walls and canyons are located in the national park which is located in western Wyoming. On February 26, 1929, the US Congress declared the area a national park. When the national […]
A popular attraction in New Orleans is its oldest part of the city, the French Quarter, also known as the Vieux Carré or Vieux Carré Historic District. After New Orleans was founded in 1718 by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, the city of New Orleans developed around the central square of the Vieux Carré. Due […]
One of America’s newest attractions in the Grand Canyon is the Skywalk. The Skywalk is a horseshoe-shaped steel and glass structure 4,000 feet above the Colorado River. The Skywalk is not in Grand Canyon National Park, but on the rim of the canyons in Grand Canyon West Park the Hualapai Indian Reservation near Eagle Point. […]
Shenandoah National Park is part of the Blue Ridge Mountains in the US state of Virginia in the southern Appalachian Mountains of the United States. It is a narrow, elongated national park with the Shenandoah River in the Shenandoah Valley on the west and the rolling hills of the Virginia Piedmont on the east. Just […]
The Yale University Art Gallery is a museum in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. It is the oldest art museum from a university in the United States, Yale University. The museum has more than 185,000 works. This artgallery is divided into ten areas: African Art The Yale Collection of Art from Sub-Saharan Africa began with donations […]
Located in central Kentucky, Mammoth Cave National Park includes portions of Mammoth Cave, the world’s longest cave system, the Green River Valley and the rolling hills of south-central Kentucky. Its official name is Mammoth-Flint Ridge Cave System for the ridge beneath which the cave was formed. As a national park, the area was established to […]
A popular attraction in Indiana is the Indianapolis Zoo, located in White River State Park in Indianapolis. Covering 64 hectares, this attraction offers many attractions, such as the zoo, the aquarium and a botanical garden. The highlights are the more than 2,000 animals, which consist of 250 species and around 31,000 plants. These animals live […]
